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Aug

Jenna Jameson And PETA — Which One Is The Hypocrite?

By The Oversneer 39 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, PETA and Television Stars

You know, maybe I’m approaching this all wrong. I was just about to write a post about how Jenna Jameson posed naked to promote PETA this week, and how she’s a total hypocrite because — well…

And so on. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve heard the litany. I was thinking, again, that this overexposed porn flake endorsing PETA would be like a kleptomaniac nymphomaniac serial killer doing infomercials for the Catholic priesthood. PETA’s whole schtick, after all, is defined by what you can’t do. It’s like being in Lent all the time.

But then I saw that on the same day PETA is promoting Jenna (the oyster-slurping, leather-wearing angler), it’s bitch-slapping Eliza Dushku for doing a bowhunting demonstration on the  Jimmy Kimmel show, and describing how she goes hunting with her boyfriend:

“When you’re in a relationship with somebody you have to, like, experience things that they do. A lot of people eat meat… and I eat what I kill.”

At which point PETA went absolutely nutters.

How is this any different from Jenna Jameson fishing with her boyfriend?

Oh yeah … Eliza hasn’t posed for a PETA poster. It’s like buying indulgences from the Pope, apparently. Makes it all okay.

Here’s the Eliza Dushku appearance on Kimmel. Scroll forward to [03:12] to hear what set off the PETA folks, and then skip to [6:00] to see Eliza shoot her crossbow compound bow.

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08
Aug

We Love to Say “We Told Ya So!”

By Simon Scowl 41 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: The Naughty Bits, The Washed Up and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

Wow, the John Edwards scandal went from 0 to 60 in only three weeks. From the just-posted ABC News story:

Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter’s baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.

He’s claiming he can’t possibly be the daddy because he broke it off with her before late May/early June 2007, when the baby must have been conceived. He also denies having anything to do with the lavish lifestyle Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young have enjoyed for the last year or so, with no visible means of support. Apparently we’re supposed to take Edwards’ word for it. But hey, why not? Just look at his track record.

P.S. Courtesy of the Daily Kos: 7/22 Truthers!

P.P.S. The Los Angeles Times, the largest “news-paper” in the city where this incident happened, keeps rockin’.

I’m not going to bother labeling the rest of these postscripts individually, so just keep clicking Refresh on this and I’ll add them as soon as I can:

Continue reading ‘We Love to Say “We Told Ya So!”’

08
Aug

TV and Newspaper Reporters Pounce on Three-Week-Old Story

By Simon Scowl 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Newscasters, The Naughty Bits, The Washed Up, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and Writers

Kind of a Major Update to the Following Post: Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

The word about John & Rielle’s Excellent Adventure keeps trickling into what some people insist on calling “the news.” Go get ‘em, well-paid media professionals!

  • According to the New York Observer, Brian Ross at ABC News is looking into the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story. Best of luck fending off the other 0 network news reporters for the scoop, Bri.
  • The NY Daily News picks up on the “Will John Edwards speak at the DNC?” angle. I’m pretty sure this is their first mention of this whole thing since the story broke. Apparently, a presidential candidate knocking up a subordinate and going to great lengths to cover it up (allegedly) isn’t news, but the possibility that it might hurt Obama is.
  • The NY Post has been on it, of course, but only Page Six. They’re talking about the DNC angle as well.
  • The British press continues to laugh at us. Today it’s The First Post and Metro.co.uk.
  • Brad Warthen, editor of The State (”South Carolina’s largest newspaper”), explains why this isn’t really a news story even though you might be dumb enough to think it is. I especially enjoyed his denial that John Edwards is a public figure:

    Oh, yeah? Maybe you should leave the blogosphere and pick up a few newspapers.

    This guy wants to play gatekeeper while the whole fence is getting knocked down.

  • Byron York at National Review Online examines the reasons behind the media blackout. In sum:

    …they’re waiting for the Enquirer to fully report a story that they wouldn’t otherwise report… because it’s in the Enquirer.

  • If you picked up a few newspapers but couldn’t find any information on this story, you can always check out Deceiver’s complete coverage here. You might find one or two tidbits you haven’t heard about before.
08
Aug

L’Oreal/Beyoncé Controversy Just History Repeating

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, Movie Stars and Musicians

Cosmetics giant L’Oreal drew a lot of heat yesterday for their new Feria haircolor ad featuring a strangely white-looking Beyoncé. (And the controversy hasn’t even mentioned that her straight blonde hair looks absolutely nothing like it used to.)

TMZ fanned the flames by polling its readers: “Is the ad a slap to Blacks?” Fifty-eight percent said yes.

So of course, L’Oreal had to do some immediate damage control, denying that her features or skin tone were retouched for the ad campaign.

O RLY? Because this would not be the first time L’Oreal has gone out of its way to make sure its hair products are being promoted by light-skinned people.

Last year, the company was found guilty of racial discrimination in France for hiring only white salesgirls to push its Garnier Fructis Style line of shampoo. Among the evidence:

In July 2000, a fax detailing the profile of hostesses sought by L’Oréal stipulated women should be 18 to 22, size 38-42 (UK size 10-14) and “BBR”, the initials for bleu, blanc, rouge, the colours of the French flag. Prosecutors argued that BBR, a shorthand used by the far right, was also a well-known code among employers to mean “white” French people and not those of north African, African and Asian backgrounds.

After the ruling, the company said in a statement, “We believe that diversity and difference are a source of richness and we do not tolerate any form of racism or discrimination.” Except, I guess, when you have a highly successful spokeswoman whose skin is just too dark.

08
Aug

Amanda Beard Explains Herself, Sorta

By Simon Scowl 15 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: PETA, Sports Figures and The Naughty Bits

The other day, the Oversneer told you about Olympic water-disturber Amanda Beard’s new PETA anti-fur ad, and how it doesn’t really square up with her professed love of leather. The Washington Post’s Beijing Sports Smog (smog?) asked her about it, and here’s what she said:

A blog dug up some quotes from you talking about different leather items in your wardrobe. Did you see that?

Yeah.

What did you think?

I think it’s kind of funny that people want to go back in time. I’m very candid with this: this is all a very new process for me and a learning experience for me. I haven’t been a vegetarian or been working with PETA for my whole life. Having a vegan lifestyle and being anti-fur and being a vegetarian, those are all very different things, and it takes time to learn and to phase things out of your life. It’s not an overnight thing that happens.

She makes it sound like ancient history, but those quotes we found (which took less than 5 minutes, incidentally) were both from 2007.

After some other deep thoughts about, like, Tofurkey and stuff, here’s the big closer:

Have you encouraged any other Olympic athletes to take off their clothes?

You know, I’m totally supportive of people who want to do what they want to do. Whether or not someone’s comfortable to get naked or not, I don’t care either way. It’s totally a personal opinion. I don’t really push my thoughts or opinions on people like that.

Yeah, why would you think she’d ever push her thoughts or opinions on anybody else?

Oh. That. Well… whatever! Leave her alone, you guys. She’s really distracted lately with all the Olympic training, and also because it’s been almost 7 years since she last mated with Spock.

P.S. Beard explains her publicity stunt to worried Beijing police (Seattle PI, via LAT):

“You have concerns,” she said. “I’m not out here taking my clothes off. We’re doing it in a very positive way.

“I’m not trying to be in everybody’s face and be harsh or negative. I want to be calm and yet get my voice out there. I’m doing it for all those animals who don’t have a voice.”

What, giraffes?

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